EP1419931B1 - Projecteur pour véhicules - Google Patents

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EP1419931B1
EP1419931B1 EP03103950A EP03103950A EP1419931B1 EP 1419931 B1 EP1419931 B1 EP 1419931B1 EP 03103950 A EP03103950 A EP 03103950A EP 03103950 A EP03103950 A EP 03103950A EP 1419931 B1 EP1419931 B1 EP 1419931B1
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retaining sleeve
joint
headlamp
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joint socket
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Hubertus Hering
Herbert Cramer
Havel Brostik
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Hella GmbH and Co KGaA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q1/00—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor
    • B60Q1/02—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments
    • B60Q1/04—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights
    • B60Q1/06—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights adjustable, e.g. remotely-controlled from inside vehicle
    • B60Q1/068—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights adjustable, e.g. remotely-controlled from inside vehicle by mechanical means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q2200/00—Special features or arrangements of vehicle headlamps
    • B60Q2200/30—Special arrangements for adjusting headlamps, e.g. means for transmitting the movements for adjusting the lamps
    • B60Q2200/32—Ball-joints
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
    • Y10T403/32—Articulated members
    • Y10T403/32606—Pivoted
    • Y10T403/32631—Universal ball and socket
    • Y10T403/32713—Elastomerically biased or backed components
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
    • Y10T403/32—Articulated members
    • Y10T403/32606—Pivoted
    • Y10T403/32631—Universal ball and socket
    • Y10T403/32737—Universal ball and socket including liner, shim, or discrete seat

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  • the invention relates to a headlamp for vehicles with a light element, with a support element, with at least one connecting the light element to the support member hinge device having a spherical joint shell and a spherical condyle, the joint shell with shell portions comprising the condyle and together with the condyle in a receiving sleeve is inserted and rests with the shell portions on the inside of the receiving sleeve.
  • a headlamp for vehicles is from the DE - A - 38 41 632 known.
  • a light element of the headlamp consists of a bowl-shaped reflector and a lens covering the reflector.
  • the light element is connected via a plurality of hinge devices with a carrier element.
  • the hinge device is part of an adjustment device.
  • the adjusting device has an adjusting bolt, which is held axially adjustable in an opening of the carrier element.
  • a joint shell comprises the joint head with shell sections, which point with their free end portions in the direction of placement. The shell sections have hinge-like joints, so that they are available with the condyle.
  • the joint shell is inserted with a portion in the receiving sleeve and a free portion of the shell sections is opened to the hinge-like joints to the outside.
  • the free portions of the shell sections to the hinge-like joints cut together and lie on the inside of the receiving sleeve.
  • the condyle is securely held in the joint cup. and
  • the joint shell is pushed together with the joint head so far into a receiving sleeve of the reflector to the joint shell automatically locked with the receiving sleeve and held axially by the latching.
  • a generic headlight is off EP-A-0 806 577 known.
  • the object of the invention is to improve the described in the preamble of claim 1 headlights for vehicles such that both the condyle comprehensive resilient cup sections of the joint shell are thin-walled produced so that the joint shell is easily latched to the condyle, as well as the joint shell in a compact Construction safely on the receiving sleeve can be fixed.
  • This object is achieved according to the invention in that the joint shell rests with a base at the bottom of the receiving sleeve and on the other side freestanding and the condyle comprehensive resilient shell sections, wherein resilient locking elements of the receiving sleeve engage behind the base of the joint shell and the joint shell axially hold the receiving sleeve.
  • the joint shell Before joining the joint head and the receiving sleeve, the joint shell is held captive on the joint head. Since the shell portions do not axially support the joint shell on the receiving sleeve, they are so thin-walled executable that they rest resiliently on the joint head and the inside of the receiving sleeve and thus support the joint head radially clearance. Furthermore, the hinge device is compact.
  • the resilient latching elements are formed by latching arms, which are each formed on an edge of an opening in the circumferential side wall of the receiving sleeve and point with its free end portion to the bottom of the receiving sleeve and radially inward.
  • the resilient latching elements abut against a peripheral edge portion of the base which projects radially outwards and hold the base against the bottom of the receiving sleeve. The locking connection between the locking elements and the joint shell can not solve unintentionally, since it is arranged protected in the interior of the receiving sleeve.
  • the joint shell is axially held even with coarse tolerances without play in the receiving sleeve when the bottom of the receiving sleeve is designed to be elastically yielding in the direction of insertion of the joint shell.
  • the elasticity of the bottom is achieved by a simple construction of the receiving sleeve when the openings for the locking elements extend from the circumferential side wall of the receiving sleeve to the central region of the bottom.
  • An investment of the base of the joint shell at the central region of the bottom of the receiving sleeve is safe if the central region of the bottom of the receiving sleeve on the side facing the base has a serving as a stop for the base increase.
  • the receiving sleeve can radially absorb a high compressive force by the resilient shell portions of the joint shell when the joint shell with the opposite direction of insertion direction facing edge portions of its shell sections on the inside of the receiving sleeve between the openings for the resilient locking elements and the free edge of the receiving sleeve on the inside of the receiving sleeve resiliently bears and holds the condyle with the freestanding radially resilient shell sections radially in its desired position.
  • the resilient shell sections each have a shoulder on the adjacent sides of their free edge portions.
  • the base of the joint shell is a circular disc
  • the outer edge portion of the bottom of the receiving sleeve facing edge circumferentially has a radius.
  • the base is centered on the radially inwardly directed locking elements.
  • the outer edge portion of the circular disc at the end facing away from the bottom of the receiving sleeve edge for the resilient locking elements has a circumferential pawfase.
  • the headlight for vehicles has a light element 1 formed by a cup-shaped reflector.
  • the light element 1 is connected via a hinge device 3 and an adjuster 18 and two other hinge devices, not shown, with a support member 2.
  • the light element 1 is adjustable by the adjusting device 18 about a pivot axis defined by hinge devices.
  • the carrier element 2 is an existing plastic housing whose front side is covered by a translucent cover plate 19.
  • the adjusting device 18 has an adjusting bolt 20 which extends in the light exit direction and cooperates with a transmission 21 arranged on the support element 2.
  • the in the light exit direction pointing end portion of the adjusting bolt 20 engages with a threaded portion in a threaded bore of a plastic guide member 21, which is radially held in a guide (not shown) of the support member 2 and axially displaceable.
  • the guide member 21 has at a directed in the light exit direction free end of a projection on a joint head 5 of a hinge device 3.
  • the condyle 5 is inserted into a receiving sleeve 7 with a joint shell 4 latched onto it.
  • the receiving sleeve 7 has an integrally formed on its circumferential side wall fastening lug 22 which is fastened by means of a screw 23 to the light element 1.
  • the joint shell 4 has a base formed by a circular disc base 12, on one side of four shell sections 6 are formed, which are designed to be radially resilient, tongue-shaped and thin-walled.
  • the shell portions 6 are after a snapping onto the condyle 5 under bias on the outside of the condyle 5 and have on the outside at their directed in Aufreastcardi end portions each have two integrally formed lugs 15.
  • a projection 15 is arranged on the adjacent sides of the shell sections 6.
  • the shell sections 6 abut with the lugs 15 on the cylindrical inner side of the receiving sleeve 7 at the free edge region 24.
  • the joint head 5 is held in the socket shell 4 after insertion of the joint shell 4 into the receiving sleeve 7.
  • the joint shell 4 rests with the outside of its base 12 at a bottom 8 of the receiving sleeve 7.
  • the locking elements 9 are formed on each directed in the light exit direction edge of an opening 10 in the circumferential side wall of the receiving sleeve 7 ,
  • the locking elements 9 have with their end section 11 to the bottom 8 and the peripheral radially outwardly projecting edge portion 13 of the base 12.
  • the locking elements 9 lie with the end face of their end portions 11 flat against a circumferential pawfase 17 of the base 12.
  • the locking elements 9 receiving ⁇ ffaufikiden Openings 10 of the receiving sleeve 7 extend from the circumferential side wall of the receiving sleeve 7 to a central region of the bottom 8.
  • the base 12 has a radius 16 on the side facing the bottom 8 at its peripheral edge.

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Claims (10)

  1. Projecteur pour véhicules avec un élément d'éclairage (1), avec un élément de support (2), avec au moins un dispositif articulé (3) reliant l'élément d'éclairage (1) à l'élément de support (2), lequel dispositif présente une coque articulée sphérique (4) et une tête articulée sphérique (5), la coque articulée (4) englobant la tête articulée (5) avec des sections de coque (6) et étant insérée dans une douille réceptrice (7) conjointement avec la tête articulée (5) et étant en contact avec le côté intérieur de la douille réceptrice (7) avec les sections de coque (6), la coque articulée (4) s'appuyant sur le fond (8) de la douille réceptrice (7) avec un socle (12) et présentant sur l'autre côté des sections de coque élastiques (6) indépendantes et englobant la tête articulée (5), caractérisé en ce que des éléments d'encliquetage élastiques (9) de la douille réceptrice (7) viennent en prise derrière le socle (12) de la coque articulée (4) et maintiennent la coque articulée (4) axialement sur la douille réceptrice (7).
  2. Projecteur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les éléments d'encliquetage élastiques (9) sont formés par des bras d'encliquetage, qui sont chacun formés sur un bord d'une ouverture (10) dans la paroi latérale périphérique de la douille réceptrice (7) et, avec leur extrémité terminale libre (11), sont tournés vers le fond (8) de la douille réceptrice (7) et, radialement, vers l'intérieur.
  3. Projecteur selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les éléments d'encliquetage élastiques (9) sont en contact avec une section de bord périphérique (13), qui est orientée radialement vers l'extérieur, du socle (12) et maintiennent le socle (12) contre le fond (8) de la douille réceptrice (7).
  4. Projecteur selon l'une des revendications 2 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les ouvertures (10) des éléments d'encliquetage (9) s'étendent de la paroi latérale périphérique de la douille réceptrice (7) à la zone centrale du fond (8).
  5. Projecteur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que la zone centrale du fond (8) de la douille réceptrice (7) présente, sur le côté tourné vers le socle (12), un rehaussement (14) servant de butée pour le socle (12).
  6. Projecteur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que la coque articulée (4) est en contact de façon élastique avec le côté intérieur de la douille réceptrice (7) entre les ouvertures (10) des éléments d'encliquetage élastiques (9) et le bord libre de la douille réceptrice (7) et maintient la tête articulée (5) dans sa position théorique avec les sections de coque élastiques (6) radialement libres.
  7. Projecteur selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que les sections de coque élastiques (6) présentent, sur leur section de bord orientée à l'inverse du sens d'insertion, au moins un épaulement (15) avec lequel elles sont en contact avec le côté intérieur de la douille réceptrice (7).
  8. Projecteur selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les sections de coque élastiques (6) présentent chacune un épaulement (15) sur les côtés contigus de leurs sections de bord libres.
  9. Projecteur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que le socle (12) de la coque articulée (4) est une rondelle circulaire, dont la section de bord extérieure (13) présente en périphérie un rayon (16) sur le bord tourné vers le fond (8) de la douille réceptrice (7).
  10. Projecteur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce que le socle (12) de la coque articulée (4) est une rondelle circulaire, dont la section de bord extérieure (13) présente un chanfrein d'appui périphérique (17) sur le bord des éléments d'encliquetage élastiques (9) qui est opposé au fond (8) de la douille réceptrice (7).
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